The French Naval support at Yorktown prevented the British from reinforcing and/or evacuating their troops, forcing their surrender.
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Reinhard Heydrich ordered the immediate annihilation of Jews and Communist officials in the conquered Soviet territories; he headed the Gestapo, directed the concentration of Polish Jews into ghettos, and convened the notorious Wannsee conference to announce the Final Solution. He had his hand in every significant anti-Jewish action in Nazi Europe until his assassination by Czech resistance fighters in June 1942. Had he survived that attack, he would in all likelihood have continued to pilot the Nazi destruction of European Jewry to the bitter end
It would be that "c. the chairman of the veterans' bureau laundered nearly 200$ million" that was not a scandal associated with the harding administration, since this in fact happened during the previous term.
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Born in Wesel circa 1580, Peter Minuit joined the Dutch West Indian Company in the 1620s. Named director of the New Netherland colony in 1626, he is said to have negotiated a deal for the island of Manhattan with a Native American tribe and helped develop a profitable fur trade in the region.